Bamboo has been used in China for over 7000 years as a building material. Today at least 2 billion people rely on bamboo for their income, using it in products like furniture, homes, scaffolding, paper, clothes and much more.

Both strong and elastic, bamboo has proven a very useful and versatile construction material. It has over twice the tensile strength of steel as it’s filled with strong, fine fibres.

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Bamboo is extremely fast growing, more so than any other tree-like plant. Some even grow 200cm in a single day! This makes it highly sustainable compared to other forms of timber used in manufacturing.

Although it looks more like a tree, bamboo is actually a form of grass. This is what helps it to grow so quickly as, unlike a tree which only grows at the top, bamboo has growth spurts along the entirety of its height.